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JOSEPH T. BRENEMAN, OF SPRINGFIELD, OHIO.

I Letters Patent N'o. 61,044, dated January 8, 1867. i

IMPROVEMENT 1N HAY smeren.

T0 ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH T. BRENEMAN, of Springfield, in the county ofMahoning, andState of Ohio7 have invented certain new and usefulimprovements in Hay Stackersg' and I do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full and complete description of the same,reference-being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of thisspecication, in which- Figure l is a front view of the stacker.

Figure 2a detached section.

Like letters of' reference refer to like parts in the diiferent views.

A, fig. l, isa strong wooden frame. B is a secondary beam, upon which ismade to slide the block C. Within this bleek are arranged the rollers Dand sheave E, tig. 2. F is a catch'; G a nib over which the catch falls.H is an arm, one end being connected to the block C, and the other tothe catch bythe links I. J is a pair of dependent arms, between thelower ends of which is the sheave K. L is a run-rope, one end beingconnected to the arm H, passing upward over the sheaves in the block,thence to and around the sheaves M in the standard of the frame. P is adrag-rope, one end of which'is connected to the block by the loop d.Passing thence over the sheave K to this rope is suspended the weight OlThe manner of operating the stacker is as follows: The frame, on beingset up where it is desired to build the stack, which may be supposed tobe at the left-hand side, between the post and the block, the load isthen drawn immediately under the block, from which depends the fork bywhich the hay is to be lifted. For this purpose may be used any of thetripping horse forks now in use. The fork is attached to the rope L, andon being pulled down and fixed into the hay, it is then raised up by therun-rope until the knot N reaches the arm H. The knot being unable topass through the hole, the arm is thereby raised up-in the directionindicated by the dotted lines a, tig. 1. It being connected to theca'tchby the dotted lines I, as above described, forces the catch above thenib. The block being then released, is then drawn along the beam on therollers referred t0 until the hay is over the place where it is to bedropped. The fork is then tripped, and the hay lfalls into the placedesignedfor it. The block is then brought back over the load by theWeight O, above described. In order to prevent the fork dropping down onthe slacking of the run-rope, and before it reaches the load, anenlargement of the rope is made at such a distance from the fork thatwhen it is drawn up it will bebetween the two rollers E, as shown intig. 2 cbeing the swell in the rope. i This enlargement of the rope isnot so great as to prevent it from passing through the nhole in the arm,but so large that it cannot pass between the under side of the beam andthe sheave until it comes over the load. At this point the beam isgrooved out, so as t0 allow room for it .to pass and the fork to drop tothe load.

This apparatusmaybe used in a barn as well as in the fields, by runninga beam across the floor and bay of the barn and placing a block thereonlin the manner above described.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

vThe construction and. arrangement of the. rollers l), sheaves E, blockC, catch F, arm H, links I, and rope L, substantially as and for thepurpose set forth.

JOS. T. BRENEMAN. Witnesses:

W. H. BURRIDGE, E; E. Werra.

